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In a double whammy, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the gulf coast. You can help.<\/p>\n
to continue, click the page links to the right<\/em> Just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina devasted the Gulf coast, Hurricane Rita has hit land. Fortunately, Hurricane Rita has not been nearly as costly in terms of lives lost, but there has been a lot of property damage and a lot of people have been displaced. Help is needed for the victims of both hurricanes.<\/p>\n Give to the American Red Cross<\/a>, the Salvation Army<\/a>, or the charity of your choice that is doing relief work in the aftermath of both hurricanes.<\/p>\n In a double whammy, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the gulf coast. You can help. to continue, click the page links to the right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nGalveston residents wait in a broken down bus to be evacuated from Galveston, Texas, as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast on Thursday. AP Photo\/David J. Phillip.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Galveston](\"http:\/\/photos.imageevent.com\/jimdoty\/blog\/Galveston_fire.jpg\")
\nA fire burns in downtown Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Rita approaches the coast Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. AP Photo\/David J. Phillip.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"